Death toll rises after fresh earthquake hits Turkey-Syria border on monday. ANTAKYA, Turkey, Feb 21- Six people have been killed in the earthquake that stuck near Turkey- Syria border. According to report, this quake stuck after two weeks after a massive earthquake that killed more than 47,000 people.
Turkey earthquake on monday: This earthquake in Monday was of 6.4 magnitude, and was centered near the southern part f Turkish city of Antakya and it also had an impact on Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. It affected a death of nearly 10 km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
CNN Turk showed a rescue team that was climbing a ladder to enter a building where some people were trapped during the quake.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca mentioned that 294 people were injured in Monday evening’s earthquake, and 18 were seriously hurt and transported to hospitals in Adana and Dortyol.
Patients were evacuated from some health facilities that had remained in operation after the massive earthquake two weeks ago, as cracks had emerged in the buildings, Koca said on Twitter.
Country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority AFAD had reported that one person is dead on Monday in Samandag, residents said more buildings had destroyed but most of the town had already shifted to other places after the initial earthquakes. Mounds of debris and discarded furniture lined the dark, abandoned streets.
Muna Al Omar said that she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the ground started shaking again.
“I thought that the earth was going to split open under my feet,” she said on Monday, crying as she was having her 7-year-old son in her arms.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday when he was on a visit to Turkey, that Washington would help “for as long as it takes” as rescue operations in the wake of the Feb. 6 earthquake and its aftershocks wound down, and the focus turned to toward shelter and reconstruction work.
The death toll from the earthquakes two weeks ago in Turkey increased to 41,156, according to AFAD on Monday. With 385,000 apartments reported to have been significantly damaged or destroyed and many people still missing, the death toll is projected to rise.
Construction on roughly 200,000 apartments in 11 earthquake-stricken areas of Turkey will start next month, according to President Tayyip Erdogan.
According to the U.S. State Department, $185 million has been allocated in total by the United States for humanitarian relief to support the earthquake response in Turkey and Syria.
According to the U.N. office for sexual and reproductive health, there are roughly 356,000 pregnant survivors of the earthquakes who urgently require access to medical care.
These include 130,000 women in Syria and 226,000 women in Turkey, with roughly 38,800 of them due to give birth in the coming month. Many of them were battling for food and water while living in camps or outside in the bitter cold.
Syria aid
The majority of casualties in Syria, a country already wrecked by more than ten years of civil war, have occurred in the northwest, according to the UN, where 4,525 people were murdered. Aid attempts are complicated since insurgents in the region are at conflict with soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
According to Syrian sources, 1,414 individuals died in regions that are under Assad’s control.
Medecins Sans Frontieres, a medical assistance organization, reported that a convoy of 14 of its trucks crossed into northwest Syria on Sunday from Turkey to help with rescue efforts.
The World Food Program has also put pressure on those authorities to stop obstructing supplies from reaching areas under the authority of the Syrian government.
A representative for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that as of Monday morning, 197 vehicles carrying U.N. humanitarian aid had crossed into northwest Syria through two border crossings.
Several Syrian refugees living in Turkey have made their way back to their homes in northwest Syria to contact family members who have been impacted by the destruction.
On Monday morning, hundreds of Syrians waited in line to cross the border at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate.
Some 350 people were waiting, according to Mustafa Hannan, who dropped off his pregnant wife and 3-year-old son.
After his Antakya home fell, the 27-year-old car electrician said his family was going for a few months, taking advantage of a promise by authorities to let them spend up to six months in Syria without losing the chance to return to Turkey.
He said, “I’m scared they won’t be permitted back.” “Our country has already been cut off from us. Are our families going to be split apart now too? My life will be lost if I rebuild here and they are unable to come back.
